In 2018 the SURF SCZ-team conducts pilots with a number of institutions. Goal of the pilots is to investigate the exact needs (what features does SCZ need to provide), test actual software, develop software based on needs and at the end of 2018 be able to decide on a go/no go on whether SURF can offer this as a service and if so, how to cover the cost etc.
Although we try to keep (also) this page current, for the latest information if needed, check with raoul.teeuwen@surfnet.nl .
The below table shows institutions that have contacted the SCZ-team and what requirement(s) they've expressed. Each institution has its own dynamics, so some institutions are swift in steps taken to connect (a) service provider(s) and test SCZ, while others have one or more reasons the pilot doesn't progress as fast as some might hope.
| Institution(s) or collaboration | Requirements | Status |
|---|---|---|
| UU (U2Connect) | UU has build an iRODS based data management middleware to share data with researchers both from within the UU and with researchers from remote institutions; UU has augmented iRODS with a layer called YODA, Your Own Data. In this pilot, YODA is coordinating user provisioning, but is using SCZ COmanage API's to do a large part of the actual work. | Deployed, testing/piloting and improving/extending |
| UvA/HvA | UvA/HvA is looking to sharing local (UvA/HvA) e-resources with the rest of the "world" as part of their internal project "Toegang tot ICT diensten UvA en HvA door derden onderzoekers”. For the pilot, three service providers are selected to share resources: Geoserver, OpenLab and O2. From the SCZ perspective, UvA/HvA is testing the guest access functionality, invitation flows, self service/decentralized authorisation and non-web-access. | Discussing LDAP structure |
| BBMRI | Lifescience & Health project (mainly in UMCs) aiming to share data and compute resources. Primarily focusing on non-web SSO and on-boarding workflows and group management solutions. (EU context as well in BBMRI-ERIC). | Investigating what service to connect |
| RUG | The RUG needs specific attributes to facilitate RUG VRE's to their researchers to allow usage of non-web services and want to see whether SCZ COmanage can supply that functionality. They want to test a workflow for their LDAP with a predefined or random value. Users connected to SURFconext or eduGAIN should be allowed access using their institutional credentials. RUG also wants to use and pilot (Delegated) Group management and configurable enrolment and deprovisioning flows. | Connecting service |
| Aeneas/Astron | Astron is involved in the EOSC-hub project in which it needs to evaluate available services for enabling federated access for the LOFAR community. EOSC-hub is an EU H2020 project to prepare a European/Regional Square Kilometer Array (SKA) Data Center. NIKHEF is 1 of the data hosters. Services considered for federated access are Indico, Docuwiki, mailing lists (e.g. Sympa) and WordPress CMS. | Evaluating SCZ as one of the possible solutions. |
| SURFsara Research Cloud project | Ambition to provide IAAS solutions specifically for research purposes. In that context need for AAI solutions as well. For this pilot, a number of API's are created so SURFsara has machine-based access to certain SCZ functionality. | Currently, experimenting with SCZ. Are connected now. |
| Donders Institute | Donders would like to investigate the feasibility of SCZ as generic ldP facility, which can provision user accounts to the Donders Repository (DR) as service. Need for eduGAIN gateway and for that reason interested in SCZ, hoping more institutions than on SURFconext will connect to DR. On top of that Donders is interested in exploring different enrolment workflows offered by SCZ, also for non-institutional users. More precisely the initial test cases will focus on
| Investigating / starting up pilot |
| CWI | Want to connect webbased SP's and supply eduGAIN access and pilot authorisation based on attributes. | Preparing startup of pilot |
| SURFsara iRODS | Providing access to non-web resource iRODS from SURFsara. | A demo has been prepared for SURFsara to evaluate |
| AMC / VUmc / Spinoza Centrum | XNAT-use case. The Spinoza Centre provides services to researchers from many institutions and wants to see how SCZ can support their processes. | Investigating / starting up |
| VUmc | VUmc has been awarded a grant for innovating on the matter of "Enabling future research collaborations to speedier start up of secure collaboration". VUmc wants to test the SCZ-stack and is planning to use LDAP to connect services to the SCZ environment. | Investigating / starting up |
| CLARIAH | CLARIAH is running a OpenConext environment to allow access to their resources. They would like to outsource this task to save on operations. | Paused. |
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